Hondo treaded water Tuesday night as he hit with the Pale Hose but missed with Tanaka and the Yankees to leave the deficit holding at 960 biancalanas.

Wednesday night: Mr. Aitch is chasin’ Chacin — 10 units on the Rockies to take Cain to the mat.

“Selfie” is among the new words added to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary. For that, a huge debt of gratitude is owed to President Obama for helping to popularize it by yukking it up with blonde Dutch PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt — as Michelle stewed — in that totally tasteless photo at the Mandela memorial service. … The Quinnipiac University co-ed who was arrested after calling in bomb threats on the commencement ceremony because she didn’t want her mom to know she had dropped out missed a much better solution. According to emailer William DiMarco she could have saved herself a lot of trouble by doing what coaches George O’Leary and Steve Masiello did: Lie for decades on your résumé and keep moving up the career ladder.